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Thoughts on the Parental Responsibility Act

Eighteen cases, in 1990, resulted in a parent serving time in jail for crimes committed by his or her child. In my opinion, I feel that parents should not be held responsible if his or her child commits a crime. There are a couple of reasons why I feel this is not a good law. First, I believe no parent can keep track of their son or daughter 24 hours a day. In a real world parents have far more to do than to monitor their child every minute of the day to make sure he or she is not breaking the law of some sort. Parents are an important role in a child’s life but they also have to meet the demands of going to work, attending the house, and to have a free moments of relaxation. Besides this a adolescent does not want a nagging parent to know every detail and thought of what they are doing, with whom, why, when and where.
Secondly I feel that by setting the law that parents serve the time for their child’s actions goes against a valuable lesson that is taught to a youngster from when they were young. When I was growing up, I remember to this day that you are suppose to take responsibility for your actions. The parental responsibility law, goes against this valuable teaching. This law does not teach the adolescent that as becoming a adult they have to accept certain responsibilities. Instead, it shows that the blam...

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